Before August Cadwell could mark me, he abandoned me at the Pack Affairs Department to temporarily register a mate bond with his childhood sweetheart, claiming it was only for her pup's future. Everyone believed I would patiently wait for him as I had for seven years. Instead, I accepted my parents' arranged mate bond and quietly left for the Lymerian Pack. Three years later, I returned as the beloved mate of Ryder Weyland, the legendary lycan chairman. Yet August still believed I was the same desperate she-wolf willing to wait for scraps of his affection. Little did he know that everything I wore, everything I owned, and the family beside me all belonged to the life he could never imagine.